Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been sworn in to be Iran’s President again — beginning his second term seen by many in Iran and even more abroad as someone who has been put into power by the country’s power elite via a rigged election. Here’s a Reuters video report:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.